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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Lazy Sunday Service

There's a reason why it's always best to wait until the very end of the year to announce your best reads - in last few days you might read a cracker of a book. And that's precisely what I've just done. Michael Russell's The City of Shadows is a brilliant debut novel set in Dublin and Danzig in 1934/35 that scores highly on every level - plotting, sense of place, historical contextualisation, characterization. A really great read. I'll post a full review tomorrow.

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About Me

I'm a professor at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and the author of four crime novels and two collections of short stories, and author or editor of 25 academic books and a 12 volume encyclopedia. My passions are reading and writing crime fiction and undertaking research on social issues. The other blogs I contribute to are Ireland After NAMA and The Programmable City.